Search for Articles:
Title / Keyword
Author / Affiliation / Email
Journal
Article Type
 
 
Advanced Search
 
Section
Special Issue
Volume
Issue
Number
Page
 
5.8
3.9
Journals
Sustainability
Special Issues
Current Energy and Environmental Issues in Emerging Markets
sustainability-logo
Submit to Sustainability Review for Sustainability Propose a Special Issue

Journal Menu

► Journal Menu

Journal Browser

► Journal Browser
share announcement

Current Energy and Environmental Issues in Emerging Markets

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2020) | Viewed by 4106

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Dervis Kirikkaleli

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Faculty of Economic and Administrative Science, Department of Banking and Finance, Lefke, European University of Lefke, Northern Cyprus, TR-10, Mersin, Turkey
Interests: environmental economics and macroeconomics
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Dr. Rui Alexandre Castanho

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Faculty of Applied Sciences, WSB University, 41-300 Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland
Interests: cross-border cooperation (CBC); environmental impact assessment; international cooperation; landscape architecture; regional planning; spatial planning and territorial governance; strategic and common planning; sustainable tourism; urban and city planning
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Dr. Sema Yılmaz Genç

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and Administrative Science, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Interests: economic theory; economic history; behavioral economics; history of economic thought; economic methodology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit your works for open access publication in this Special Issue of Sustainability, entitled “Current Energy and Environmental Issues in Emerging Markets”. The world is becoming more intensely aware of the critical issues arising from human use of its energy. Energy is a vital commodity that sustains human lives, as well as economic processes. Simultaneously, it is widely acceptable that energy use contributes to various environmental challenges, including climate change, fossil fuel resource depletion, and air pollution. Now, energy- and environment-related issues are significant issues that must be considered seriously as a policy and in order to achieve energy and environmental sustainability on a global scale, especially in whole emerging markets. This Special Issue will explore studies concerning the development, assessment, and management of energy and environmental issues in emerging markets.

Research areas for the Special Issue include but are not exclusive to:

  • Energy and environment in emerging markets;
  • Renewable energy in emerging markets;
  • Wind power, solar energy, and biomass and bioenergy uses in in emerging markets;
  • Energy technology in emerging markets;
  • Pollution control and cleaner production in emerging markets;
  • Environmental economics in emerging markets;
  • Sustainable energy in emerging markets;
  • Sustainability and climate change in emerging markets;
  • Natural resource economics in emerging markets;
  • Transportation and energy efficiency in emerging markets;
  • Environmental planning in emerging markets.

The Special Issue welcomes both qualitative and quantitative studies, as well as empirical and theoretical contributions.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dervis Kırıkkaleli
Prof. Dr. Rui Alexandre Castanho
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sema Yılmaz Genç
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • environment
  • energy
  • emerging markets
  • environment planning
  • sustainability
  • climate change

Published Papers (1 paper)

Order results
Result details
Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:

Research

20 pages, 1392 KiB  
Article
Implementation and Challenges of the Passive House Concept in Portugal: Lessons Learnt from Successful Experience
by António Figueiredo, Filipe Rebelo, Rui Alexandre Castanho, Rui Oliveira, Sérgio Lousada, Romeu Vicente and Victor M. Ferreira
Sustainability 2020, 12(21), 8761; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218761 - 22 Oct 2020
Cited by 13 | Viewed by 2934
Abstract
The European Green Deal defined by the European Commission on December 2019 presents an ambitious set of measures for the European Union and its citizens to accomplish the challenge of climate change, making Europe until 2050 the first neutral continent, where there are [...] Read more.
The European Green Deal defined by the European Commission on December 2019 presents an ambitious set of measures for the European Union and its citizens to accomplish the challenge of climate change, making Europe until 2050 the first neutral continent, where there are no net emissions of greenhouse gases. The Passive House (PH) concept has the same ambitious goal, targeting the reduction of the carbon footprint while promoting a construction design that gives primacy to the optimum energy balance, assuring comfort and quality with a minimum impact on the final building cost and operation. However, the PH concept is still not an easy process to implement in the traditional construction sector, especially in South European territory, as is the case of Portugal. Contextually, the present study through the discussion of a case study research method applied to European PH successful experience, has defined guidelines for the implementation of this concept within sustainable development principles. The methodology strategy starts with the information collection from Hanover, Brussels, and Tyrol case studies. Then, a statement regarding the current situation of Portugal in respect of the PH numbers and policies was performed. Moreover, the information gathered, as well as the experience of learnt lessons, were compared to the Portuguese reality. As a final procedure, barriers and obstacles for the Portuguese case have been identified through the analysis and understanding of the country’s social dynamics, and also with the crossing of sustainable development principles. Thus, the present research enables us to propose guidelines to increase the PH implementation in Portugal. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Energy and Environmental Issues in Emerging Markets)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:
 
Displaying articles 1-1
Back to TopTop